juries

The prevalence of whites on juries is particularly striking when contrasted with the following data obtained via this Columbia Journalism News article that I found after a quick Google search:

News Item 2007

The prevalence of whites on juries is particularly striking when contrasted with the following data obtained via this Columbia Journalism News article that I found after a quick Google search:

Criminal Law 2007

Quite right - but that's because there's no history of discrimination against left-handers, whereas the practice of using peremptory challenges and other devices to keep blacks off juries is older than Jim Crow and a continuing problem.

Balkinization 2006

‘No blame attached to the officers’-that lying and disaster-breeding verdict so common to our soft-hearted juries, is seldom rendered in France.’

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Pour encourager les autres” 2010

My point was to follow Robert’s comment that discussion around prize juries is selective and determined by the people involved.

Griffin speculation runs hot this time of year 2010

However, I get uncomfortable with the idea of juries being advised that they can ignore the law if it suits them.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Perhaps the Most Riveting First Chapter I Have Ever Read: 2009

TOOBIN: Absolutely, that is called, it's a rather grisly term, but lawyers call juries in this case death qualified.

CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2003 2003

Crimes and offenses will be tried by juries, that is to say, by a living code.

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Various

They were not embarrassed by a necessity of impanelling juries; they might call juries if they pleased; they might use "all other means and politic ways that they could devise."

The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

He affirmed that the juries were the most singularly obtuse and obstinate bodies he had ever encountered; and that the courts were, beyond all question, the most incurably opinionated tribunals that ever were formed.

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832